SAP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SAP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 61 32
Rank change year-on-year +10 -29 +56
Contract jobs citing SAP 91 67 122
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.90% 3.64% 5.93%
As % of the Vendors category 9.13% 7.58% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 30 81
10th Percentile £364 £360 £430
25th Percentile £523 £452 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +2.78%
75th Percentile £738 £634 £688
90th Percentile £825 £723 £790
Central London median daily rate £600 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £23.93 -
25th Percentile - £30.15 £146.25
Median hourly rate - £41.35 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year - -71.97% -
75th Percentile - £52.96 £148.75
90th Percentile - £59.43 -
Central London median hourly rate - £41.35 £147.50
% change year-on-year - -71.97% -

All Vendors
City of London

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 997 884 910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.72% 47.97% 44.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 571 629
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £753
Central London median daily rate £550 £540 £538
% change year-on-year +1.85% +0.37% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 11
10th Percentile - £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.83 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.02% +21.57% +20.00%
75th Percentile £28.57 £62.00 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.30 £65.03 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -20.33% +7.67% +20.00%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SAP job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.10%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 28 (30.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.59%) SAP ERP
2 6 (6.59%) SAP HCM
3 2 (2.20%) iTrent
3 2 (2.20%) NetSuite
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (2.20%) SAP BRIM
3 2 (2.20%) SAP GRC
3 2 (2.20%) SAP MDG
3 2 (2.20%) SAP MM
3 2 (2.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (2.20%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (1.10%) Primavera
4 1 (1.10%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.10%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.10%) SAP HR
4 1 (1.10%) SAP R/3
4 1 (1.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.38%) SuccessFactors
2 13 (14.29%) Azure
3 7 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.59%) AWS
5 5 (5.49%) GCP
6 3 (3.30%) Boomi
6 3 (3.30%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.30%) SaaS
7 2 (2.20%) AtomSphere
7 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.20%) Matillion
7 2 (2.20%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.59%) Power BI
2 4 (4.40%) SAP BW
3 3 (3.30%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (3.30%) Metadata
4 2 (2.20%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.20%) Tableau
5 1 (1.10%) GIS
5 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.10%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) eggPlant
2 2 (2.20%) JMeter
2 2 (2.20%) LoadRunner
2 2 (2.20%) Postman
2 2 (2.20%) SoapUI
2 2 (2.20%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.10%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.10%) HP UFT
3 1 (1.10%) JIRA
3 1 (1.10%) Rational Functional Tester
3 1 (1.10%) Selenium
3 1 (1.10%) SilkTest
3 1 (1.10%) SOAtest
General
1 26 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 25 (27.47%) Finance
3 12 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.49%) Banking
5 5 (5.49%) Billing
6 4 (4.40%) Local Government
6 4 (4.40%) Retail
7 3 (3.30%) Law
7 3 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.20%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.20%) Legal
8 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.20%) Marketing
9 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (21.98%) Architect
2 14 (15.38%) Analyst
2 14 (15.38%) Consultant
3 11 (12.09%) SAP Consultant
3 11 (12.09%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (8.79%) Lead
4 8 (8.79%) SAP Manager
5 7 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 5 (5.49%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.49%) SAP Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Cutover Manager
7 4 (4.40%) SAP Cutover Manager
7 4 (4.40%) Senior
8 3 (3.30%) Developer
8 3 (3.30%) Integration Architect
8 3 (3.30%) Oracle Consultant
8 3 (3.30%) Report Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) SAP Project Manager
9 2 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) Middleware
1 9 (9.89%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (7.69%) XML
3 6 (6.59%) SOAP
4 5 (5.49%) JSON
5 4 (4.40%) .NET
5 4 (4.40%) OAuth
5 4 (4.40%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (3.30%) JWT
6 3 (3.30%) OAuth2
6 3 (3.30%) REST
6 3 (3.30%) SAML
6 3 (3.30%) Web Services
7 2 (2.20%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.20%) HTML
7 2 (2.20%) Kafka
7 2 (2.20%) XBRL
7 2 (2.20%) XSLT
8 1 (1.10%) RAML
8 1 (1.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.49%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.30%) FMCG
4 2 (2.20%) IoT
4 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.20%) Replication
5 1 (1.10%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.10%) CMDB
5 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Life Science
5 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.30%) Linux
1 3 (3.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (30.77%) ERP
2 25 (27.47%) Migration
3 21 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (18.68%) Data Migration
5 15 (16.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (16.48%) User Acceptance Testing
6 13 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 12 (13.19%) Translating Business Requirements
8 11 (12.09%) Integration Patterns
8 11 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (12.09%) Roadmaps
9 10 (10.99%) Change Management
10 9 (9.89%) Risk Management
11 8 (8.79%) Agile
11 8 (8.79%) Data Governance
11 8 (8.79%) Project Management
11 8 (8.79%) Validation
12 7 (7.69%) Analytics
12 7 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (7.69%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.09%) SQL
2 5 (5.49%) Python
3 4 (4.40%) Java
4 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.20%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.10%) ABAP
6 1 (1.10%) C#
6 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.10%) Korn
6 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (9.89%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.30%) Degree
4 2 (2.20%) CIPD
4 2 (2.20%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.20%) PMP
4 2 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.10%) CISM
5 1 (1.10%) CISSP
5 1 (1.10%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) ISEB
5 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.89%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.59%) GDPR
3 4 (4.40%) QA
4 3 (3.30%) GRC
4 3 (3.30%) PMO
4 3 (3.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 19770
5 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.20%) IAG
2 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.20%) HP Fortify
2 1 (1.10%) Control-M
Vendors
1 26 (28.57%) Oracle
2 17 (18.68%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.49%) Ariba
3 5 (5.49%) Databricks
4 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.40%) Workday
5 3 (3.30%) Google
5 3 (3.30%) IBM
5 3 (3.30%) Informatica
5 3 (3.30%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.20%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.20%) OpenText
7 1 (1.10%) Adobe
7 1 (1.10%) IFS
7 1 (1.10%) Intapp
7 1 (1.10%) Kronos
7 1 (1.10%) Palantir
7 1 (1.10%) Qualtrics
7 1 (1.10%) VMware